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How do the steps taken by leaders of Athens reflect a turn toward democracy?
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∙ 13y ago
I understand it was only Pericles' regime that produced any real democracy and it died with him. I also heard an anecdote about that. It claimed the returning aristocracy that Pericles confronted said to each other, "Now that we can't force them into doing what we want, we will need to fool them into it."
I think that explains well what happens today. I wonder if politicians found that so easy then as it is now.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 8y agoThe leaders' actions didn't reflect development of democracy, they promoted it. The tyrants in the second half of the 6th Century BCE were appointed to break the power of the aristocracy and give fairness to all citizens. Then when the tyrants became unpopular, they were expelled and the aristocrats tried to take over again. Cleisthenes countered this by bringing in limited democracy, the aristocrats returned to dominance when they led resistance to the Persian invasion and hung on to power, then Ephialtes overthrew the aristocracy and reinstalled democracy. For this he was murdered by the aristocrats and his deputy Pericles took over and entrenched the democracy with more radical power.
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